From the nature of the universe (that's if there is only one) to the purpose of dreams, there are lots of things we still don't know – but we might do soon.

Low profit margins and the difficulty of finding new drugs has led to big pharma shutting down its antibiotics programmes. But now researchers are adopting new approaches to tackle drug-resistant superbugs

Scientists incentivised to publish surprising results frequently in major journals, despite risk that such findings are likely to be wrong, suggests research Getting stuff right is normally regarded as science’s

Researchers now have ‘moderate’ certainty that infants should be given potential allergens from four months to help prevent severe reactions In the 1970s, when we were in school, food allergies